# globalisation

Pronunciation: UK say "gloh-buh-ly-ZAY-shuhn" /ˌɡləʊ.bə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/; US say "gloh-buh-li-ZAY-shuhn" /ˌɡloʊ.bə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

## Noun

1. The process by which the countries and peoples of the world become ever more closely linked, especially as trade, business and money come to operate on a worldwide scale.
   - Simple: The way countries around the world become more and more connected, especially through trade and business.
   - _Globalisation means that a factory closure in one country can be felt on high streets thousands of miles away._
   - _The pandemic showed how far globalisation had gone, as the virus travelled along the routes of trade and tourism._

## Origin

The word joins global and the suffix -isation, or globalise and -ation. Theodore Levitt, a German-American economist and professor at Harvard Business School, made it widely known.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/globalisation (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).